A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.